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SUMMER | SERIES 31

Starts January 14 at 6:30am Pacific
Ends January 21 at 6:30am Pacific

This is the first season of Series 31.


The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe (C8) is this week's new exclusive reward car.

BARN FIND RUMOR:

• (Spoiler - repeat Summer find)

#FORZATHON SHOP (changes at 7:30am Pacific)

• 600 FP Car: 2018 Land Rover Range Rover Velar First Edition (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 350 FP Car: 1965 Morris Mini-Traveller (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• Car Horn: Halo Theme
  
• Clothing: Frog Wellies
  
• Wheelspins cost this series: 40 FP & 150 FP

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FESTIVAL PLAYLIST

• 50% Summer Completion: 1992 Toyota Supra 2.0 GT Twin Turbo (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 80% Summer Completion: 2018 Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• 50% Series Completion: Backstage Pass - see how it works here
  
• 80% Series Completion: 1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe

Backstage Pass car choices (all previously released exclusives):

• 1999 Lotus Elise Series 1 Sport 190
  
• 2012 Ferrari 599XX Evoluzione
  
• 1965 Hoonigan Gymkhana 10 Ford Hoonicorn Mustang
  
• 2005 Hot Wheels Ford Mustang
  
• 1970 Porsche 914/6
  
• 2018 Honda Civic Type R
  
• 2001 TVR Tuscan S
  
• 1994 Nissan Fairlady Z Version S Twin Turbo
  
• 1965 Pontiac GTO
  
• 1952 Hudson Hornet
  
• 1969 Hot Wheels Twin Mill
  
• 2018 Ford #25 Mustang RTR
  
• 2019 BMW Z4 Roadster
  
• 2018 Ford Mustang RTR S5
  
• 2018 Mercedes-Benz X-Class
  
• 2018 Ford #88 RTR Mustang RTR
  
• 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS
  
• 2017 Hoonigan Gymkana 10 Ford Fiesta ST
  
• 1984 Honda Civic RX Mugen
  
• 2011 DS Automobiles DS 3 Racing

PHOTO CHALLENGE (3%)

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#ROMANROADSTER- Take a photo of any Modern Sports Car in Mortimer Gardens
Share a scenic photo with the hashtag on social media for a chance for your photo to be featured by Forza.

• Reward: Super Wheelspin

#FORZATHON

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Earn 100 FP from the weekly challenge plus 10 per Daily, plus Bonus for all, double for owning the Lake Lodge

Weekly Challenge: (15%)
Must be done in sequence to count.

• Own and drive the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI GSR '99
  
• Earn a total of 12 stars from Speed Zones in your Lancer
  
• Win 5 Dirt Racing Series Events in your Lancer
  
• Take your Lancer out for a 10 mile drive

Daily Challenges: (1% each)
Each challenge is open for 72 hours from 6:30am Pacific of the start day.

• Earn 2 stars in total from Danger Signs
  
• Filter through traffic to earn 2 Threading the Needle Skills
  
• Closely overtake while racing to earn 3 Ultimate Pass Skills
  
• Earn 1 Great Drafting Skill
  
• Closely overtake while racing to earn 1 Pass Skill
  
• Earn 2 stars in total from Speed Traps
  
• Combine Drift and Near Miss Skills to earn 2 Lucky Escape Skills

SEASONAL EVENTS

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The unique reward listed for seasonal championship events requires you to place 1st against at or above the Highly Skilled Drivatar difficulty setting; the Trial requires Unbeatable difficulty. As of Series 24 Playground Games rewards the car for all participants, win or lose.

The Trial Co-Op Championship: "A Good Old Sport" | Road Racing | (A800) Retro Sports Cars

• Reward: 2019 BMW Z4 Roadster (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  Showcase Remix: "Motocross Purposes"
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  Seasonal Playground Games | Express North Rail Yard | (B700) Classic Muscle
  
• Reward: 1973 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am SD-455 (previously available Exclusive model)
  
• As of Series 24 you don't have to win the event to earn the reward.
  
  PR Stunt: Broadway Windmill Danger Sign | 1299.2 feet
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: Northbridge Speed Trap | 180.0 mph
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  PR Stunt: Broadway Commons Speed Zone | 165.0 mph
  
• Reward: Super Wheelspin
  
  Championship: "Find New Roads" | Street Scene | (B700) Chevrolet
  
• Reward: 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe (newly released Exclusive model)
  
  Championship: "Nothing is Too Beautiful" | Road Racing | (S2 998) Bugatti
  
• Reward: 2018 Bugatti Chiron
  
  Championship: "Rally-Oop" | Dirt Racing | (C600) Classic Rally
  
• Reward: 1970 Ford GT70 (previously available Exclusive model)
  
  
  MONTHLY EVENTS
  

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• Monthly Rivals: Chevy Corvette C8 at the Holyrood Park Circuit
  
• Online Adventure: (requires 1 Qualifying race to get ranked)

Completing the monthly events applies their completion percentage to all four seasons in the Festival Playlist:
6% for Monthly Rivals
15% for Online Adventure Qualifying

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:59:19 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Ranked is showing series 30 and shows complete. You start with 15%. Says it ends in 12 min in claim rewards

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 7:17:47 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

No shenanigans with the Trial this week thankfully even though I had someone called [Mod Edit - do not name and shame others. See the Forza Support article on reporting other players - MM] in my team who made it clear that name isn't ironic (sad huh?) and either had a poor tune or simply chose the wrong car, used a Skyline R34 and it was unbelievably sluggish from 2nd-5th gear.

Online adventure is just showing as locked for me in the playlist and has done since I came on a few minutes after the season started, rewards + ranked are also greyed out.

Edit: Almost like the game seen me post as the adventure stuff all went back to normal a few minutes after I posted this originally.

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 1:21:27 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Must have goofed up with the timing so it ends at the same time as the forzathon shop now.
Well the countdown went to 0 and I restarted the game, it now says series 31 like it should do, but it says I have completed it which I have not. Oh well, free 15%


Also weekly forzathon chapter 4 “rally champion” (drive 10 miles) is showing in metres? I thought it wanted me to drive 16,093 miles at first...


In the horizon backstage menu, the symbol for the number of passes you have in the very top right hand corner is completely borked. How do tiny things like that get broken?

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02:35 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

That dreaded Bugatti race is back! I remembered from last time how hard it is to control an S2 Bugatti.

No reason for 5 races in Forzathon. None other then to waste people’s time. Stop it.

Shows something else on mine, and 3 of them were already completed when I logged in.

You’re season isn’t right makes no sense. Did you update.

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:33:57 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Usually it updates automatically but not this time I guess. Its back to normal after I updated.

Series started with a bit of a mixup around online adventure, continued with a great rammer (reported and blocked) in series 31 online adventure FFA.
Then there was the A 800 road racing trial with retro sports cars and some of previous races leaked into this one as well ... bumper cars racing, wall riding, the whole shabang.
Luckily my pick was able to put me into the lead very fast and run away from all the shenanigans - 3x 1st and 3:0 for team.
Lotus 340R, tune shared as Road - 395 419 569

With all online annoyance out of the way, it was time to relax, slowly ... :)
So moving to S2 998 road racing with Bugattis and I pick one of many Divos in my garage (need to do a garage sale soon, or just throw many things in garbage).
Not really happy with it, but I wasn't expecting much out of Bugattis
Bugatti Divo, tune shared as Road - 264 617 385

Maybe now its time to actually relax ... it was, with B 700 street scene racing, with Chevys. So it was finally time to use my El Camino Again :)
Chevy El Camino, tune - 184 071 283

Finished with C 600 dirt racing, with retro rally cars and ofc I picked Mr. Bean's car
Mini Cooper S, tune - 698 116 404

Time for PR stunts and Koenigsegg Agera RS, tune - 167 849 655 smashed danger sign and speed trap with ease, speed zone was left for McLaren Senna, tune - 176 256 116

Weekly Forzathon car is Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI, I used B 700 tune, shared as Offroad - 172 805 517, picked Forrest Green as easiest speed zone, then used my custom blueprint at Derwent water trial, share code - 764 612 023 and finished with some driving around.

Again finished with a pic


Hope thgis is of any help to someone, take care and have fun, bb

Edit
Finally found out how to get share codes, even if they don't show at your tune nowdays - share your tune, then go to find/load new tunes and search for it, you'll get share code there.

Edit 2
Rimac Concept 2 is Super 7 reward car this week.

Edited by user Friday, January 15, 2021 3:01:45 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Added tune share codes.

The games and the C8 championship have some auto overlap overlap so I used a 70 Camaro for both. It's a race tune but did pretty well in the games.

I chose a 92 Silvia for the Trial for something different. It did pretty well beating all drivatars and winning in one race over a 92 nsx. The nsx won the others. I hung back to avoid other players until an easy pass presented itself.

Used an untuned Divo for the Bugatti championship. It went fine. If you don't already have a qualifying car you may as well just buy the reward unless you need the completion for the series or season.

C8 and Games: 70 camaro 102 125 328
Trial: 92 Silvia 454 135 829

For the stunts a 98 Supra knocked them out. For the speed trap I started out on the grass lined up with the bridge.
Speed Zone 98 Supra 600 737 502
Jump and speed trap 98 Supra 609 842 300

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 10:56:13 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

When will I get the new corvette after getting first place on the Finding new roads championship?

It's possible to do that, but you shouldn't touch water (in any cases you can solve that) and do end of race on very high speed

Edited by user Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:54:29 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I agree...
Anyone looking to get through the 5 Dirt events quick, we can help each other out? I'm trying to get level 5 blueprinter. 10s race, just hang a right at the fork while the AI goes left. Thank you to anyone that makes the trek.

Share code:

430 960 816

5 races might be a bit much, for just a Forzathon, but I actually didn't mind too much. I did them all on Fortune Island.
Fairly decent A class rally tune for the Lancer here:
101 050 312.

For the street races, I used the '70 Corvette. It wasn't too bad at all for street races. Serviceable tune here:
128 236 964

C8 races goes with a 66 Chevy Nova, tune 822 681 791

Not the biggest engine, no wings but fast off the line and it handles

I lost a Trial for the first time for a long time today. I went in with an 800 car, but all of my teammates were in lower PI cars, so me being at 800 meant there was a drivatar none of them could beat, and it also meant it was hard for me to slow down the fastest drivatar enough for them to catch up. It was 1-1 going into the last race, and I did slow down the fastest drivatar enough to have the lower PI drivatars also backed up behind it, but 4 of the team still came in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th, so that was that.

Did it again going in with a stock '99 Elise and easily won that one, including winning the 2nd race outright.

Apparently only one of our team got the memo regarding Corvettes



The entire opposing team, without being in the same club, showed up in either '67s or '70s. Just found it peculiar.

Considering the amount of tuned cars in your games, it is extra strange as neither are great choices to upgrade/tune for the games, P.I. is already restrictive as they both start in B class.

This is yet another (~strange) version of players been very unimaginative with choice.(a total of 36 eligible choices, inducing all DLC/exclusives)

The car I used, Firebird, (for what the numbers matter) has 6 in speed, and 5 in accel (vs 6.3/5.6, 5.8/5.6 respectively) before tuning, and it starts pre-upgrade in D class! Not saying it is the best choice, but certainly has more options on the table from word go.

Why it wasnt update earlier as always?
Anybody knows?

Edited by user Friday, January 15, 2021 3:03:48 AM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I suspect that they joined in a convoy, despite not being in the same club and decided that they’d all use Corvettes. Feels too random otherwise.

Mine was updated on time.

My opinion any new car added could have been better than the Corvette. It's a very overrated car handles like a caddy and ford has them beat with the GT.

You get it immediately if you win the championship on highly skilled or higher difficulty.

Yeah.. good point, did not occur to me as a reason, but makes a lot of sense.